last night brian williams went on david letterman and they had fun poking fun at karl rove. >> we have probably the best guys in the business. and our guys were not willing to make a call early. went into last night -- we went into last night -- >> the call was made about 11:12. >> did you see what happened? what karl rove did. after the call -- oh, buddy -- i -- what about florida? we haven't even -- huh -- somebody said -- send that gal down to -- hey! [ applause ] i saw it and it sounded just like -- sounded just like that. >> bill: the big story this morning, read it somewhere where karl rove, the best that he could do yesterday, he called up all of his big donors and he says well, you have to take some real pride that if you hadn't put in those hundreds of millions of dollars it wouldn't have been as close as it was. that's his fallback position. >> gee thanks! >> bill: i'm glad i gave you $100 million. >> heck of a job rovey. >> bill: we're going to analyze the election a little closer today and get your take on whether or not you think president obama has a mandate. but first --